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dicuious) yet I thought fit to hint as much that others 
may try ; for fometimes fuch old Stories refer to 
fome peculiar Vertues, tho' not to all that is faid of 
them. 
There be wild Turkies extream large; they talk of 
Turkies that have been kill'd, that have weigh'd be- 
twixt fifty and fixty Pound weight ,• the largeft that 
ever I faw, weigh'd fomething better than thirty eight 
Pound ; they have very long Legs, and will run prodi- 
gioufly faft. I remember, not that ever I faw any of 
them on the Wing, except it were once : Their Feathers 
are of a blackifti ihining Colour, that in the Sun fhine 
like a Dove's Neck, very fpecious. 
Hens and Cocks are for the moft part without Tails 
and Rumps ; and as fome have aflured me our English 
Hens after fome time being kept there have their Rumps 
rot off,- which I'm the apter to believe, being all their 
Hens are certainly of Englijb breed. I'm forry I made 
no Anatomical Obfervations thereof, and Remarks about 
the U(e of the Rumps in Birds, which at prefent I take 
to be a couple of Glands, containing a fort of Juice for 
the Varnifhing the Feathers having obferved all Birds 
have much recourfe with their Bills to the Rumps when 
they drefs their Plumes, whereby they feud through the 
Air more nimbly in their Flight. 
Patridges there are much fmaller than ours, and re- 
fort in Covies as ours do ; their Flefli is very white, and 
much excels ours in my mind, Sed de gufiilus non eU 
difputandum. 
Their Turtle-doves are of a duskifh blew colour, 
much left than our common Pidgeon, the whole Train 
is longer much than the Tails of our Pidgeons, the 
middle Feather being the longed. There's the ftrangeft 
Story of a vaft number of theft Pidgeons that came in 
a Flock a few Years before I came thither ; they (ay 
they eame through Nem England, New Tork m& Vir- 
ginia, 
